dessert
Coconut Cream Pie
If you’ve ever been on a road trip, then you know truck stops and diners have the best food. They also have the best desserts…usually. The veneer of a truck stop or diner won’t lure you in on looks alone, but the food in my experience, has been really good. And it has to be. …
Read MoreYogurt Popsicles
Mr. S. enjoys eating yogurt for his mid morning snack but he realized that the ‘deal’ we got on buying 16 was nearing its expiry date. He would have to devour 8 in the next two days! We’re usually good at checking expiry dates but this one must have slipped through the cracks. We had…
Read MoreApple Pie Shake
Weeds and wild flowers – they’re everywhere! Some consider them a pest especially when trying to keep them out of your lawn. Our back yard overlooks a small field and as you can imagine, full of weeds and wild flowers. I have absolutely no patience for weeds and I think they know that. All you…
Read MoreStrawberry Pavlova
It’s officially Summer (yay!) although it still feels like Spring here in the Maritimes. A good indicator that we might be leaving the cold behind is the sighting of fresh, local strawberries. I spotted them at the Halifax Seaport Farmers’ Market, Pete’s and other grocery retailers over the weekend. I grew up in the country…
Read MoreGrilled Pineapple
This is such an easy, no fuss, and delicious dessert to make. Grilled pineapple can be served on its own, with ice cream or a dollop of yogurt. I’ve been grilling pineapple for years and it’s always a crowd pleaser. I have been asked before how to pick a ripe pineapple. When we lived in…
Read MoreEton Mess
If you haven’t heard of Eton Mess, you’re in for a real treat! It’s an English dessert, served in the food hall at Eton College, and is a mixture of strawberries, broken meringue and whipped cream. It’s so easy to make and a perfect dish for those novices wanting to try baked meringue…and don’t worry…
Read MoreDate Squares
You could say date squares are a retro dessert but for me they never went out of style. In western Canada, date squares have been also known as matrimonial cake but in the east coast I’ve only ever known it as date squares. Perhaps matrimonial cake is a metaphor for marriage because it has a…
Read MorePineapple Cherry Upside-Down Cake
Pineapple skillet cake has been around since the early 1920s. Dole held a pineapple recipe contest in 1926 and among the 60,000 submitted, 2,500 were for pineapple upside-down cake. And by the mid 1930s, it was the most widely cake made in America. It was still quite popular in the 1950s and 1960s. I’m sure…
Read MoreCardamom Sugar Cookies
Who isn’t drawn to a pretty, delicate-looking cookie? I’m a sucker for this sort of thing and with Spring here and Easter just around the corner, I was inspired to make these sugar cookies. The cardamom sugar cookie recipe hails from Williams-Sonoma, border icing from The Kitchn and flood icing from Every Day Occasions. Cardamom…
Read MoreLava Cake
When we plan a dinner party, there’s careful consideration as to the flow of the evening especially towards the end. We want our friends to be able to walk away feeling satiated but not stuffed to the gills and about to go into a food coma! Choosing the right dessert makes for a fitting end…
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